Category: Destinations

For over five decades Albuquerque, New Mexico has been the host of the Balloon Fiesta which has grown to a 9-day international event and the largest hot air balloon event on earth. The annual...

Old is a relative term. You might look at an antique piece of furniture, for example, built over a hundred years ago and consider that old. Or in the case of Petrified National Forest,...

Seemingly in the middle of nowhere but on the way to many popular locations is a little hidden away state park in California that is very worthy of a short visit. Red Rock Canyon...

Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks are two parks conjoined and operated as one unit by the National Park Service. Essentially, It’s the “buy one, get one free” deal from the National Park Service....

Yosemite is a very popular national park located in central California and best known for its dramatic granite rock formations and magnificent waterfalls. There’s something for everyone at Yosemite, which is the reason it...

Beautiful Lake Tahoe has been a long-time winter ski destination for us. We’ve been there many times and have lots of great memories visiting the Tahoe area with friends and family. The magnificent Sierra...

Standing tall in the southern end of the Cascades Mountains is the second tallest peak in the Cascade Volcanic Arc, Mount Shasta at 14,179 feet above sea level. Twenty major Volcanoes rise into the...

A mere 7,700 years ago Mount Mazama exploded. An eruption 40 times that of the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption caused the mountain to collapse into itself creating a 2,100-foot caldera. Over the next...

It was May 18th, 1980 and after nearly two months of seismic activity and volcanic eruptions, much attention and caution was focused on Mount St. Helens. However, no one anticipated what would happen at...

Central Washington is a transition point from the coast and rainforests to the west and the drier and hotter valley to the east. It’s a place that you can witness three seasons all at...